“Thank y’all for the supportive words!,” Shelton wrote on Twitter, recording backstage at The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

In the video, the singer goes in hard from the first mean tweet: “Woke up this morning to the news that Blake Shelton is the sexiest man alive,” he reads with a straight face. “RIP every sexy man in the world who died in the great sexy plague of 2017 overnight. You will be missed.”